This star is going to the moon

Chapter 58 "Moon Frost-Resistant King" Plan!
In fact, after the "Golden Toad" lunar rover successfully ejected and landed, and took the first working photo of the Chang'e 5 landing and takeoff assembly from a distance, its most basic mission was completed.

After that, it’s all profit.

Lu Yun's mission is almost completed.

After all, his original mission was just to get a counterweight and install it, but he chose to build a lunar rover.

Even because the "Golden Toad" was an unplanned lunar rover, let alone planning a mission for a few days, it would be a great fortune even if we could survive to take a photo on the moon.

In his previous life, Lu Yun had seen the goals set by private aerospace companies. Their lunar probes, not to mention other missions, could come up with many ways to successfully achieve a soft landing.

Even a hard landing is a success!
For example, in 1924, a private aerospace company launched the SLIM intelligent lunar lander. During the landing process, it burned out an engine nozzle and landed on the moon in a "someone-upside-down" posture.

Fortunately, when the accident happened, the spacecraft was already very close to the lunar surface and its speed had slowed to the lowest, so it was not completely damaged. Some equipment was still usable and communication was possible.

It's just that the posture is wrong. The solar panels can't get much sunlight to charge. In the fourteen-day lunar day of Earth time, there are only about two or three days of sunlight, and that's the "evening" sun.

It also carries two very miniature lunar rovers, one is a 0.25 kg spherical lunar rover "Pokeball", and the other is a square jumping lunar rover "jumper" weighing less than 1 kg.

The "Poké Ball" took a picture of it, proving that it had indeed... uh, landed.

(Photo of SLIM landing headfirst)
The reason why Lu Yun thought of this was because he had referred to SLIM's technology when designing the "Golden Toad" lunar rover.

Although SLIM's landing posture is a bit inelegant, it has a nickname.

That is - the Moon's Frost-Resistant King!
Because SLIM is small enough and compact in design, the polyimide insulation film tightly wraps the main equipment and batteries, so that the battery heat dissipation alone can withstand the cold moonlight night that lasts for 14 days on Earth.

Generally, lunar landers that want to survive the long and cold lunar night must be equipped with an isotope heat source. Only its continuous heat release ability can ensure that the equipment can safely survive the lunar night.

Therefore, a lunar lander like SLIM that does not have an isotope heat source can only operate for one lunar day lasting 14 Earth days by default, and will die after entering the lunar night.

Unexpectedly, SLIM was awakened after the moonlit night, and was even successfully awakened several times afterwards!
It was originally supposed to work for just over ten days, but it actually lived for several months, giving many space enthusiasts a surprise!

"The Moon's Frost-Resistant King" is the nickname given to it by space enthusiasts.

The "Golden Toad" lunar rover designed by Lu Yun is smaller and more compact, with all the important equipment in the golden rectangular box in the middle. He feels that the surprise of this life's "Lunar Frost-Resistant King" should be able to be brought forward by a few years.

However, the colleagues who were still in the late 2017 in this life were stunned when they heard what Lu Yun called "surprise".

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is it possible?

Everyone looked at each other, frantically searching their brains for knowledge, and then came to the conclusion...

"It's theoretically possible!"

“Hiss, it’s true!”

"It's theoretically possible, but the official missions are more about stability, and every mission is carefully calculated, so there's no extra resources for this kind of testing!"

The roommate hugged Lu Yun with a look of surprise, shouting, "Godfather! Godfather, I bow to you!"

"..."

Lu Yun speechlessly pulled these embarrassing things away.

Don’t you see what kind of occasion this is?

But it’s no wonder that the roommates were ecstatic, because along the way, there were surprises one after another, and each one was bigger than the last!

It feels so good to be led by a big boss!
woohoo~
After the "Golden Toad" lunar rover operating room reported the matter, everyone in the command hall was alarmed. Academician Ye Jianfei and his team were preparing the takeoff process of the Chang'e 5 ascender, and came over immediately after hearing this.

The "Golden Toad" lunar rover had already found a suitable position to film the Chang'e 5 ascender's takeoff, so it didn't move further. However, a group of people came rushing in, looking amazed. Ye Jianfei patted Lu Yun's shoulder with a smile, and the more he watched, the more he liked him: "You kid, you're really good!"

"How confident are you of the plan you mentioned?"

Lu Yun said calmly, "Theoretically, it's 100%, but as you know, many things have a 50% probability of success in practice. It's either a success or a failure."

Ye Jianfei didn't care: "As long as there is theoretical support, it's fine. What's more, it's 100% theoretical support!"

Other big guys also came over to talk.

"That's right, and your 'Golden Toad' lunar rover has already exceeded our expectations. Every extra second is a huge profit!"

"Haha, we never thought we'd see so many wonderful images of 'Chang'e 5 on the Moon'. This is all thanks to you."

"That's right, I even want to compete with Master Ye for students!"

"However, if the Golden Toad can truly survive for several months, its mission schedule will need to be carefully planned, and the subsequent plans for the Chang'e 5 orbiter will be forgotten. It will definitely have to return to lunar orbit to serve as a communications relay."

"Yes, the Golden Toad's small antenna can't transmit information to Earth. The Chang'e 5 lander's antenna can communicate directly with Earth at a low rate, but it doesn't have overnight insulation. Oh, what a pity! I should have known..."

"Even if we knew this earlier, it wouldn't have been possible. This national mission must ensure the most basic success. We can't just change the design. Besides, it's not that early. Two months ago was already too late for the overall Chang'e 5 mission..."

A group of big guys were arguing and running back to the command hall when the Chang'e 5 ascender was about to take off. Lu Yun was in the lunar rover operating room directing the "Golden Toad" to capture the shocking and precious scene of the lunar takeoff.

(3D simulation screen)

The last similar image was the Apollo 17 takeoff from the moon decades ago, and the image quality was very blurry.

Lu Yun couldn't help but sigh that human aerospace technology has indeed stagnated for too long.

Perhaps this is his mission in rebirth.

Human beings must go out and take a look!
It was 11:30 pm on December 3rd, but when the official photos were posted online, they still caused cheers from a group of night owls.

As the Chang'e-5 ascender carried lunar soil into lunar orbit, Lu Yun also took over command of the "Golden Toad" lunar rover.

He can finally have a few days of good rest.

Because Lu Yun is the only private partner in this mission, the Chang'e-5 project officials still need to discuss how to settle the R&D costs with him, but his honors and bonuses will definitely be included in the subsequent project awards.

After all, both the "Golden Toad" lunar rover project itself and the Chang'e 5 series of photos it took are excellent.

What's more, if it can survive several lunar nights successfully, the "Golden Toad" lunar rover can also take a large number of precious photos of the lunar surface.

In the next few days, every time Chang'e 5 successfully passed a mission node, Lu Yun's work group became lively. On the 11th, the golden-haired businessman who loved to show off showed up.

He signed a formal space policy directive in the White House, restarting the moon landing program and fulfilling his campaign promise.

"We're going to put astronauts back on the moon, and we're going to Mars!"

"Yes, space is too important to us. We will re-establish our leadership in space!"

"No one understands space better than me!"

On the same day, Lu Yun attended the wrap-up party of "The Wandering Earth".

Then listen to Brother Jing's complaints about Director Guo.

"He's just a liar..."

(End of this chapter)